AWS-Solution-Architect-Associate Free Practice Test

- (Exam Topic 2)
A company wants to direct its users to a backup static error page if the company's primary website is unavailable. The primary website's DNS records are hosted in Amazon Route 53. The domain is pointing to an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company needs a solution that minimizes changes and infrastructure overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

1. A. Update the Route 53 records to use a latency routing polic
2. B. Add a static error page that is hosted in an Amazon S3 bucket to the records so that the traffic is sent to the most responsive endpoints.
3. C. Set up a Route 53 active-passive failover configuratio
4. D. Direct traffic to a static error page that is hosted in an Amazon S3 bucket when Route 53 health checks determine that the ALB endpoint is unhealthy.
5. E. Set up a Route 53 active-active configuration with the ALB and an Amazon EC2 instance that hosts a static error page as endpoint
6. F. Configure Route 53 to send requests to the instance only if the health checks fail for the ALB.
7. G. Update the Route 53 records to use a multivalue answer routing polic
8. H. Create a health chec
9. I. Direct traffic to the website if the health check passe
10. J. Direct traffic to a static error page that is hosted in Amazon S3 if the health check does not pass.

Correct Answer: B

- (Exam Topic 2)
A company’s website provides users with downloadable historical performance reports. The website needs a solution that will scale to meet the company’s website demands globally. The solution should be
cost-effective, limit the provisioning of infrastructure resources, and provide the fastest possible response time.
Which combination should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

1. A. Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3
2. B. AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB
3. C. Application Load Balancer with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
4. D. Amazon Route 53 with internal Application Load Balancers

Correct Answer: A
Cloudfront for rapid response and s3 to minimize infrastructure.

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company hosts a data lake on AWS. The data lake consists of data in Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The company needs a reporting solution that provides data visualization and includes all the data sources within the data lake. Only the company's management team should have full access to all the visualizations. The rest of the company should have only limited access.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

1. A. Create an analysis in Amazon QuickSigh
2. B. Connect all the data sources and create new dataset
3. C. Publish dashboards to visualize the dat
4. D. Share the dashboards with the appropriate IAM roles.
5. E. Create an analysis in Amazon OuickSigh
6. F. Connect all the data sources and create new dataset
7. G. Publish dashboards to visualize the dat
8. H. Share the dashboards with the appropriate users and groups.
9. I. Create an AWS Glue table and crawler for the data in Amazon S3. Create an AWS Glue extract, transform, and load (ETL) job to produce report
10. J. Publish the reports to Amazon S3. Use S3 bucket policies to limit access to the reports.
11. K. Create an AWS Glue table and crawler for the data in Amazon S3. Use Amazon Athena Federated Query to access data within Amazon RDS for PoslgreSQ
12. L. Generate reports by using Amazon Athen
13. M. Publish the reports to Amazon S3. Use S3 bucket policies to limit access to the reports.

Correct Answer: A

- (Exam Topic 2)
A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to reduce a company's storage costs. All the company's data is in the Amazon S3 Standard storage class. The company must keep all data for at least 25 years. Data from the most recent 2 years must be highly available and immediately retrievable.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

1. A. Set up an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition objects to S3 Glacier Deep Archive immediately.
2. B. Set up an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition objects to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 2 years.
3. C. Use S3 Intelligent-Tierin
4. D. Activate the archiving option to ensure that data is archived in S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
5. E. Set up an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition objects to S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) immediately and to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 2 years.

Correct Answer: B

- (Exam Topic 2)
A company is migrating its on-premises PostgreSQL database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The
on-premises database must remain online and accessible during the migration. The Aurora database must remain synchronized with the on-premises database.
Which combination of actions must a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

1. A. Create an ongoing replication task.
2. B. Create a database backup of the on-premises database
3. C. Create an AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication server
4. D. Convert the database schema by using the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT).
5. E. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to monitor the database synchronization

Correct Answer: CD